Genre: First Person Shooter
Publisher: id Software
Developer: id Software
Engine: id Tech5
About the game
ID Software has announced at their QuakeCon conference that the company is hard at work on an entirely new title dubbed Rage.
The game is already attracting widespread attention, mostly due to the fact that this is the company famed for creating seminal first person shooter titles Castle Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake. Rage is being developed on id’s new Tech 5 platform and will be released across PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mac.
The company is claiming the game, which will reportedly fill two DVDs or one Blu-Ray disc and is costing tens of millions of dollars to build, will be a showcase for the new Tech 5 technology – a development platform designed to make cross-platform releases simple.
Details on the actual content of the game are scant although it’s been reported that there will be a heavy emphasis on racing as well as first person shooting. The game’s set 75 years after an apocalypse bringing comet struck the earth where mad max style anarchy reigns.
While you can almost certainly expect oodles of visceral combat, id Software have been keen to emphasise that the game will be a significant departure from their most recent title, Doom 3.
There’s been no announcement as to the game’s release date with the company helpfully assuring that it will be released ‘when it’s finished.